Sorry all, much as I think this is the silliest thing since sliced bread (or should that be buttered bread) you can't ask administrators to violate laws they think are stupid, even those they KNOW are stupid. They are just as stuck as that kid. It would be NICE if, given the definition of "knife" by the law, the admin could have decided that a butter knife in a car is not a weapon inside the school, and thus decided that the law didn't apply - but that isn't really their decision, it's the courts' - but the poor student is FAR from "making too much of it" and the admin people should be out in force on the side of the student.

In the US, an honor student can be a) a student on the honor roll (akin to Le Tableau D'Honneur in French school) which means grades above a certain point. But they can also be a student in an honors course, akin to an advanced seminar. The basic distinction blurs but you have "honor students" in the former case and "honorS students" in the latter, usually. Either way, they aren't the kind of dérailleur that need additional discipline!